Charlotte Mia Rose and Chris Maxwell Rose
The Pleasure Mechanics
The Pleasure Mechanics are dedicated to offering effective, compassionate resources so you can experience a more fulfilling sex life, on your own terms.
Our online courses allow you to master new sexual skills in the privacy of your own home, at your own pace.
Speaking of Sex with The Pleasure Mechanics is our free podcast that offers candid conversations, expert interviews and loads of practical advice.
Want to hear how we became somatic sex educators, fell in love and started Pleasure Mechanics?
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We are dedicated to the liberation of all beings. For more, please read our Values and Accountability Statement.
Our Story – The Short Version
In 2006, we met in the Sexological Bodywork training at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. Chris was co-facilitating the course and Charlotte was a one of 24 students gathered from all around the world. There was an instant connection but the workshop demanded a strictly professional relationship! A few months later, we went out to dinner with a mutual friend and hit it off.
Once we started dating, we knew immediately that we were meant to collaborate to bring more pleasure to this world. We started our business three months into our relationship – our first Valentine’s Day was spent signing LLC contracts and dreaming up future projects!
We were both trained in massage therapy and sex education, and wanted to share these powerful tools for sexual pleasure and connection with the world via the magic of online media. This was in 2006, the earliest days of online video, and we sensed an opportunity to offer the knowledge we were sharing in workshops with all those around the world who didn’t have access to San Francisco’s saturation of erotic education resources.
Since 2006, we have focused exclusively on creating online erotic education, supported entirely by our community of erotic explorers.
We create practical, down-to-earth resources that are effective and efficient. We know you are busy and don’t have four hours a day to devote to your erotic life, so we bring you the most straightforward, effective techniques to experience more pleasure, love and connection.
On the 7th anniversary of our first kiss, we got legally married on the banks of the Hudson River, and both adopted a new family name. A year later, we welcomed our daughter to the family!
Now, we are busy moms and business owners and we know more than ever the value of pleasure, intimacy and healthy erotic relationships!
Through our podcast and our Pleasure Pod Membership, you can join the conversation and be part of our community. When you are ready, check out our online courses.
Any questions? Want to collaborate in some way? Be in touch via email: chris or charlotte {at} pleasuremechanics.com
Pleasure Mechanics Bio
Partners in love and life Chris Maxwell Rose and Charlotte Mia Rose have been immersed in body-based sex education since 2003, and together founded Pleasure Mechanics in 2006. After pioneering the field of Sexological Bodywork, teaching sold out workshops and taking stages big and small worldwide, The Pleasure Mechanics have spent the past 10 years focusing exclusively on online education, delivering their soulful and effective erotic education through online courses and their weekly podcast, Speaking of Sex.
The Speaking of Sex podcast offers hundreds of hours of passionate, thoughtful conversation about every facet of human sexuality. The listeners of Speaking of Sex have described the show as “invigorating, intimate, informative & insightful” (and that is just the words starting with i…) With over 400 episodes and counting, the show offers in-depth investigations into the lived experience of human sexuality, celebrating the pleasure and connection that is possible without ever shying away from the complex nuances of the forces that influence your erotic experience. Speaking of Sex is an ad-free, community supported podcast.
Chris and Charlotte work towards the erotic liberation of all beings, and have dedicated their lives towards this pleasurable “beyond this lifetime vision”
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Charlotte Mia Rose:
Independent Sex Educator since 2005
Professional Massage Certification
Diamond Light School of Massage, San Anselmo, CA
2004
Somatic Sexology Certification
Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco, CA 2006
Teacher-In-Training, Sexological Bodywork course
Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco, CA 2007
Bachelors of Arts, Sociology Wesleyan University, CT 2002
Chris Maxwell Rose:
Independent Sex Educator since 2003
Over 1000 classroom hours teaching erotic touch
Professional Massage Certification
Body Electric School, Oakland, CA
2004
Somatic Sexology Certification
Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco, CA
2004
Co-Facilitated Sexological Bodywork course
Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco, CA
with Joseph Kramer, Ph.D. 2005-2007
Bachelors of Arts, Sociology
Vassar College, NY
2003 Department and General Honors, Cum Laude
A note on our names:
When we launched Pleasure Mechanics, we had the names Charlotte Goodman-Smith and Christine Fawley. We married in October 2012, and adopted a unified family name, becoming Charlotte Mia Rose and Chris Maxwell Rose. Still the same dedicated sex educator duo, now with new and improved names! Cheers!